Authors

Peter Robinson

Biography

Born in Salford, Lancashire, England in 1953. He grew up in Liverpool and went to university at York and Cambridge. During the 1970s and 1980s he taught for various institutions, edited two poetry magazines, Perfect Bound and Numbers, and was involved in organizing a number of poetry festivals. From 1989 he taught English literature in Japan, first at Kyoto University, then for fourteen years at Tohoku University, Sendai, and once more in Kyoto. In April 2007 he became Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading (UK). Married with two daughters.

contact: School of English and American Literature University of Reading Whiteknights PO Box 217 Reading Berkshire RG6 6AH

Sample Text

In another town you turn a corner, but it's not there any more -- the place with hunting pieces, flagons, a close-hung mish-mash of daubs and prints.

Here clean breasts were made, minds spoken -- our waiter boning fish, all genial, patient, hardly bothered if once more we proved the last to leave.

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But dust has gathered on lintel and sill; restoration work this morning's at a standstill...

I squint through smeared windows, see grayness, a gray of no menus, mementos, no things.

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And I see how the vacant ex-restaurant through its cloud of chalk is like nothing so much as a sea shell in which you catch talk that talked and went so far with distant wave-forms broken on the shore of others' minds like swell, swell echoing from the years before.